Thursday, January 10, 2013
Puzzle by Kevan Choset / Edited by Will Shortz
WH[BLANK][BLANK]L OF FORTUN[BLANK] (42A. When completed, popular TV program starting in 1975, I’D LIKE TO BUY AN E (25A. Request that would complete 42-Across), WHITE (1A. One of a popular TV game show duo), SAJAK (63A. One of a popular TV game show duo) constitutes the interrelated group of this Thursday crossword. The resulting down entries for the group are THE [BLANK] (34D. Something to fill in), [BLANK] STARE (43D. Sign of an absent mind), [BLANK] VERSE (44D. Nonrhyming poetry).
Other — BODY ARMOR(56A. Military protection), DISNEY, TOD and TRON (9D. See 4-Down and 36-Down; 4D. 9-Down fox; 36D. 1982 9-Down movie), EHUD BARAK (17A. Predecessor of Ariel Sharon), EMBARKED (5D. Made a start), WORK DAYS (37D. You might go to bed early before these).
Mid-size — ABNER, CLEAR, DEBAR, “What should I DO NOW?“, ELGIN Marbles, ENIGMA (10D. It‘s a mystery), FINDER (45D. One earning a fee, maybe), HI MOM, INANE, INGRID (22A. Queen of Denmark, 1947-72), LURCH, MERLOT (6D. Certain red), money, MORRIE (41A. Title figure in a Mitch Albom best seller), NAURU (29D. Pacific nation), ON OFF and ON RED, POUTER, ROARS, SIETE, SIREE, VERTEX (48A. Meeting place for mathematicians?), WAUGH (37A. Novelist whose first wife had the same first name, curiously).
Short stuff — ABLE, ADD, ALEX, ALT, A MAJ, ANTI, ARF and ARK, BAER, BIS, BITE, BRNO (23A. Moravian capital), DOC, DORA, ELOI, ERR, HIHO, I-BAR, “IMUS in the Morning“, INKY, IPOD, “Dies IRAE“, ITEM, Live IT UP, IZE, MIA, NAP, NOS, ONE D, OOZY, ORSK (54D. Ural River city), REA and REAR, REED, SVEN, SYR, TOR, VCRS, “Say WHEN”.
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